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Craig Butt

Craig Butt

Craig Butt is the National Data Editor of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Schools that Excel 2025: Find out your school’s VCE results over the past decade

The Age’s Schools that Excel series celebrates schools that achieve outstanding improvement in their VCE results over a decade. Find out who won and use our dashboard to track your school’s results.

  • Craig Butt and Noel Towell

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St Albans Secondary College acting principal John Coulson-Silva, pictured with year 12 college leaders. The college is one of Victoria’s top VCE performers among government schools.

These students’ superpower guarantees VCE success, but the western suburbs need more schools

In a special series on Melbourne’s west, we reveal the top VCE schools in the booming region where many students have fewer choices and face long commutes.

  • Noel Towell and Craig Butt
Go west is The Age’s special series on Melbourne’s western suburbs.

Go west

In this special series, The Age focuses on Melbourne’s western suburbs to see how life could improve in Australia’s fastest-growing region.

Brisbane

Where do Brisbane’s richest families send their kids? Search your school here

The median family income of parents at one Brisbane school exceeds $340k, but many private school families still begin saving years in advance.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt and Craig Butt
PLC’s principal has expressed grave concerns over the safety of students.

The Perth private schools with the highest-earning parents revealed

Students at one western suburbs school had a median family income of $376,000 – the highest in WA and one of the highest nationally.

  • Holly Thompson and Craig Butt
New analysis reveals where the top 1 per cent of income earners live in Brisbane, and what they make each year.

What you need to earn to be in the top 1 per cent in your Brisbane suburb

Find out how much the highest earning people in your suburb make each year.

  • Marissa Calligeros and Craig Butt
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What you need to earn to be in your Melbourne suburb’s top 1 per cent

Toorak is Melbourne’s only suburb where the top 1 per cent earn more than $5 million a year on average. Use our interactive map to check out the data for your suburb.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Craig Butt

The state budget in six graphs

These six graphs break down expected sources of state tax revenue, the budget’s bottom line over the coming years, the scale of Victoria’s debt and where infrastructure investment is heading.

  • Craig Butt
The top 1 per cent earners are concentrated in the wealthy western suburbs.

What you need to earn to be in the top 1 per cent in your Perth suburb

The Australian suburb with the highest average income among its top 1 per cent is Cottesloe, at an eyewatering $16 million. See what the top 1 per cent earn in your suburb.

  • Sarah Brookes and Craig Butt
Sydney’s 1 per cent: the city’s best paid suburbs revealed

What you need to earn to be in the top 1 per cent in your Sydney suburb

In Bellevue Hill, top earners bring in an average of $7.5 million. Check out your suburb.

  • Matt Wade and Craig Butt